Sunday, February 14, 2010

GeneaBlogger Games 2010 Diary, Day 1 (2/13)

Today was a bit of a bust unfortunately. I was down with a migraine much of the day (and yesterday) but I did manage to earn a Bronze in the Expand Your Knowledge area because I completed Task A and mapped out the home of my great x 3 grandparents, Niels Christian and Engeline Christine Petersen Nielsen in 1930. From the 1930 census I learned that they were living with their daughter Lillian and her husband, August Peterson along with two boarders. The family was at 1626 Versailles Ave., Alameda, Alameda, California in 1930. Here is the house now:

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I'm a 20-something, long-time genealogy enthusiast from Northern California. My paternal ancestry is mostly concentrated in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. On my mother's side, I am a 6th generation Californian, with ties further back to many of the lower 48 states.